FSA 13th Division

The 13th Division is a Free Syrian Army-affiliated rebel group formed in 2013 during the Syrian Civil War. Funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the 13th Division was supplied BGM-71 TOW missiles by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency, and it had over 1,800 fighters. The group fought against both the government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic State, and on 6 May 2015 it helped in the formation of the Fatah Halab operations room. After March 2016, the al-Nusra Front attacked the 13th Division in Ma'arat al-Numan after demonstrators in the streets flew the flag of the old Republic of Syria rather than the black flag of jihad, and the group was forced to flee to Turkey.